With three months to go until year's end, the 33,701 Suspicious Activity Reports filed by casinos and card clubs in 2014 already exceeds the 27,505 filed during the entirety of last year by more than 20 percent, according to figures released by the U.S. Treasury Department's anti-money laundering unit earlier this week. The figures suggest demands made by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that the casino industry do more to combat money laundering have not fallen on deaf ears, compliance experts say. ''It appears the industry is listening,'' Kevin Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who led a game-changing investigation of Las Vegas Sands Corp over anti-money laundering lapses that ended in a $47 million settlement in August of last year, told Thomson Reuters. The month after the Sands settlement, FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery rattled casino executives during a speech in Las Vegas in which she said the industry was not taking its anti-money
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